Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!micomvax!vedge!lai
From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0
Message-ID: <136@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 19:54:37 GMT
References: <10576@mimsy.UUCP> <124@polygen.UUCP> <2448@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent,PQ, Canada
Lines: 11
Summary: math is wrong

In article <2448@umd5.umd.edu>, louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> 
> On, for example, our Unisys 1100 machine, a "regular"
> pointer is 8 bytes long (2 words, 72 bits).  A pointer to a function is 
> 64 bytes long (8 words, 288 bits).  
The math is wrong, 64 bytes ( 16 words, 576 bits).

Our news feeds are very late so this reply may have been posted already
-- 
The views expressed are those of the author, and not of Visual Edge or Usenet
David Lai (vedge!lai@oliver.cs.mcgill.edu || ...decvax!musocs!vedge!lai)